Tobacco-planter



(No Model.)

E. A. ROLLMAN. TOBACCO PLANTBB..

Patented July 5, 1892.1.I

Wihyzsszs UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER A. ROLLMAN, OF EATON, OHIO.

ToBACCo-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 478,289, dated July 5, 1892. Application filed October 30,1891. Serial No. 410,371. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

13e it known that I, ELMER A. ROLLMAN, a citlzen of the United States, residing at Eaton, 1n the county of Preble and State of. Ohio, have invented a new and useful Tobaccolanter, of which the following is a specificaion.

This invention relates to improvements in tobacco-planters, and the objects in view are to provide a machine adapted to facilitate the setting out of tobacco-plants and in such setting out to secure the objects in view by successively forming a furrow for the reception of the plant, injecting water into said furrow at the point the plant is dropped, and subsequently covering the same.

Other objects and advantages of the inven-l tion will appear in the following description,

and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a tobacco-planter constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail of the water-delivering mechanism.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The axle 1 is reduced near its ends to form bearings for the reception of the groundwheels 2, and is supported and bolted to the centers of two opposite side bars 3, which serve to support the axle. The front ends of the side bars are connected to a transverse bar 4, one for each side bar, and from the'inner ends of said side bars rise standards 5, which at their upper ends are connected to a pair of draft-bars 6, the rear ends of which are tenoned in the front face of the axle. From the transverse bar 4 extend forwardly platforms S at opposite sides of the machine, and the same have formed at their rear ends standards 9. These platforms are bolted to and aid in the support of a rectangular frame V10, the rear end of which is secured to the draft-bars 6. The frame 10 has bearing-openings 11 formed in its opposite sides, which re ceive the bearings of the roller 12, mounted for rotation within the frame. A vertical bail of inverted-U shape (indicated at 13) rises from the frontend of the frame 10 and loosely receives the draft-tongue 14, the rear end of which is pivoted, as at 15, between the front mounted.

ends of the draft-bars 6. A lever 18 is fulcrumed upon the standard 5 and is connected by a rod 18 with the rear end of a bell-crank lever 18h, pivoted upon the draft-bar in front of its connection, and at its front end connected by a chain 18c to the front end of the frame 10.

Secured for reciprocation between the draftbars 6, im mediately in rear of the draft-tongue, is a discharge spout or boot 16, which terminates at its lower end in a furrow-opening shoe 17.

Upon suitable curved supports 21, mounted upon the axle 1, is mounted a water-receiving barrel 23 and the same serves not only for the holding of water, but also as a seat for the driver. A pipe 24 leads from the barrel at the under side ofthe same, and terminates a short distance in rear of the shoe and, in said pipe near its lower end a cut-olf 25 is This cut-off is normally closed by a spring 26. A shaft 27 is mounted loosely for oscillation and reci procationin eyes 28,pro jecting from the axle, and the outer end of said shaft entends into the path of aseries of pins 29, projecting from the innerface of the adjacent ground-wheel, while the inner end is bent to form an arm 28% The series of pins may be increased or diminished, so that the end of the shaft, which is in reality a trip, may be actuated any number of times to the revolution of the wheel. By lengthening the trip the duration of actuation of each pin may be increased.

3l designates abell-crank lever pivoted between the draft-beams 6. The rear end of this lever is loosely connected to the inner end of the trip-shaft, while the frontend thereof is pivotally connected to the cut-off 25 of the discharge-water pipe. A lever 29, pivoted to one of the beams 6, serves as a means for reciprocating the rock-shaft 27 and thus throwing the arm or end of said shaft out of the path of the pins. An axle 32 is mounted in bearing-openings formed in the lower ends of the depending standards 5 and upon the same is mounted a covering-wheel 33. This wheel is circumferentially and centrally grooved, as at 34, and the opposite halves of said wheel are inwardly inclined, as shown.

This being the construction, the operation is as follows: The machine having reached IOO the eld of operation the platforms are occupied by two operators and the driver is perched upon the barrel. Through the medium ofthe lever 18 the frame is lowered to operative position. Motion upon the part of the machine serves to form a furrow by means of the shoe, and at intervals the hands upon the platforms pass the tobacco-plants down through the discharge spout or boot. At the same time one of the pins of the ground-wheel serves in a manner obvious to cause an opening of the cut-oit in the water-pipe and permits of the discharge of water upon the plant during the time the trip is under the influencent the pin. The covering-wheels here follow and serve to return the dirt to the furrow, thus covering up the plant. It will thus be seen that I provide a machine of cheap and simple construction adapted to accommodate a sufficient number lof operators and to successively open the furrow, receive the plant, inject water into the furrow, and re-cover the same.

l-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim isl. In a machine of the class described, the combination, with the opposite side bars ,6, of theaxle 1, mounted thereon, the wheels mounted .on the axle, the transverse bars 4, connected to the front ends of the side bars, the standards 5, depending from the inner ends of the transverse bars, the axle journaled in the standards, `the peripherally grooved and concaved covering-wheel mounted on the axle, the frame 10, secured to the front ends of the bars 6 and carrying the roller l2, the platforms 8, supported by the frame and transverse rods 4, the boot 16, depending from bet-Ween the bars and between the platforms, the shoe at the lower end of the same, the barrel supported upon the side bars, the dischargepipe leading from the barrel and terminating in rear of the shoe, the spring-actuated cut-oil' mounted in the discharge-spout, the looselyjournaled trip-shaft bent at its ends and secured to the axle, the pins on the wheel for engaging the outer end of the trip-shaft, and the lever pivoted to the bar 6 and at it-s ends to the inner end of the trip-shaft, substantially as specified.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination, with the frame-Work, the axle, and the wheels, of the depending boot, the shoe located in the lower end of the saine, the water-reservoir supported upon the framework, the discharge-pipe leading therefrom and terminating in rear of the shoe, the cutotf mounted in the discharge-pipe, a spring for normally closing the same, a trip-shaft journaled on the axle and having its outer end bent and extending parallel to the wheel, vpins mounted on the wheel for tripping the shaft, and a lever pivoted to the frame-work at its lower end pivoted to the inner end of the trip-shat`t and at its front lower end pivoted to the cut-off, and a foot-lever loosely connected to the inner end ot' the trip-shaft and adapted to reciprocate the same into and out of the path of the pins, substantially as specified.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ELMER A. ROLLMAN.

Witnesses: A. C. RISINGER, IRvIN R, REEDY. 

